'LUCKY TO BE ALIVE'

On a Monday, he'll buy six Big Macs. He eats one, then wraps the rest in clingfilm and microwaves them as needed over the following days. He returns on Thursday to buy another eight and repeat the process.

He also claims his nurse wife Mary (whom he met and proposed to at a McDonald's) is fine with his Big Mac "obsession" having struck an agreement with her before they married.

"She's fine with it. She doesn't mind. She eats a lot of microwaved stuff vegetables and stuff like that. We made an agreement when we got married that I could eat Big Macs if I didn't get fat.